When do you put up/out your Christams decorations?

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After Thanksgiving is as early as I’ll go. Though we are late sometimes. By the first week in January they come down. I must admit I’m getting annoyed by the overdecorating (I guess I’m a Scrooge). I like to put a simple line on the house with lights and that’s about it.

My neighbor had his Halloween lights up :rolleyes:
 
My outdoor decorations go up on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Indoor decorations are done slowly over the following week.

My tree is purchased and decorated around the 2nd weekend in December.

The outside and insidfe mangers get the baby Jesus on Christmas Eve before heading out to Mass.

Everything stays up and lit until after Epiphany.🙂
 
I put up the Christmas tree around December 23rd or 24th. I always take it down before Ash Wednesday.
 
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SeekerJen:
January 6th is the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord- when the Wise Men reached the stable and found the Messiah. This is the last day of the official Church Christmas season. It’s also the basis for the “12 Days of Christmas” song- there are 12 days from Christmas to Epiphany.
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In true Christmas season end with … “The season of Christmas ends on the Monday after the Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord, which signifies the purification of the world, through Christ himself.”---- shrinesf.org/seasons.htm#Christmas

We start some time around Dec 7 or 6 (st. nick day— we get a present on this too) maybe earlier …end on Epiphany or later…
 
Sorry everyone:(

I just realized that I spelled “Christmas” wrong in the title.

I am so embarassed!:o

I want to thank you all for not pointing it out and making me feel worse than I already do.

Finella
 
Our (German) family tradition has us put out the empty creche, advent calendar and advent wreath on the first Sunday of Advent–then we start adding figures, candles etc. through the season, culminating with putting up the tree and decorations Christmas eve; everything comes down on Twelfth Night. My Nana always ate HERRING Christmas eve but I hate herring. The only fish I like is tuna fish (no mayo) or stuffed clams. I’d have starved if I’d lived in a seaport in the olden days. . .

I like to make Springerle, though, and pfeffernusse (they’re cookies), as well as braided Christmas sweet yeast bread.
 
Why would anybody put Christmas decorations up until Christmas?

Do you eat your dessert first as well?

Christmas starts when Advent stops and continues until Epiphany. It is a religious season, not a time determined by Walmart and Sears. Be a radical and follow the religious calender put out by your local parish.

To everything there is a season and a time under heaven.
 
Well, we’re Eastern-Rite Catholics, so ours go up somewhere between Advent and Dec. 25 (at least one week before Dec. 25) and never come down before Epiphany (which we celebrate two weeks after the Romans do because we use the old calendar).

The priest from the church where I was baptized says that the exterior decorations are to celebrate the Nativity, so they shouldn’t go on display before Christmas Day.

Personally, I’m looking into permanently mounting rope lights under the eaves on my house so I a) can have them anytime I want them, and b) I don’t have to rush around close to Dec. 25 trying to get them up. 😃

Blessings,
Bob Whitehead
 
My husband is Jewish so we try to wait till after Hannukah but it’s not always possible.
 
My mom usually starts taking all the wall/surface decorations down from the attic (hundreds it seems; she’s been married for over 20 years) between Halloween and Thanksgiving. This is my first married year, and we’re living in an apartment and seeing as we really don’t have any decorations, I’m just not going to worry about decorating my home this year. I’ll be at relatives’ for Thanksgiving and Christmas anyway 🙂 (yay for families not having met each other yet)
 
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